Your spelling of "programme" tells me you are probably in the UK,
and as such you have free POP access to Yahoo.uk accounts.
Just follow these instructions:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/pop/pop-06.html

Although the instructions are for Outlook Express, they will work for
Windows Mail.

Gary VanderMolen

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:493D318A-6880-4616-B7DE-EF42D1AE1378@microsoft.com...
> How do I configure Windows Mail (Vista Home Premium Ed.) to work with Yahoo
> web-based mail?
>
> I understand nothing of IMAP, STMP, or POP3...that's all greek to me. I have
> attempted to do this on my own using jnstructions that I obtained from Yahoo.
> However, these instructions unfortunately are for MS Outlook 98 and 2000.
> Has anyone had problems with Yahoo or has anyone using Yahoo with Windows
> Vista Home Premium ed. successfully accessed this programme? Please, help me
> out here to explain in simple terms how to correctly set it up?
>
> Thank you for your assistance!
>